Civil Service: Retirement

Lord Laird: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average age of retirement from the senior Civil Service in the Department of Energy and Climate Change; what that figure was for its predecessor departments; and what was the average pension paid to those retired senior civil servants in each year since 2001.

Lord Marland: DECC does not hold the information you have requested centrally and in order to answer your question the department would incur disproportionate costs.
	We estimate that both the charge payable to our pension provider for extracting the information and the time that would need to be spent to check the data for accuracy would exceed the £800 cost limit threshold.